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Reversal combines images and sounds from movies released or broadcast in 1973, the year the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. In the strange new reality ushered in by the Dobbs decision, the slogan "We won't go back" is recalled with bitter irony. This collage piece evokes the spectre of regression and repression that has followed the Court's decision.

Diane Nerwen is a video artist and art educator. She has shown her work internationally, including screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Tate Modern, London, carriage trade, NY and the Berlin Film Festival. She was awarded a DAAD Artist in Residence Fellowship in Berlin in 2001.